Timeline for A canonical post on creating Windows To Go drives?
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| May 20, 2019 at 17:22 | comment | added | undo | @mast ...how so? | |
| May 20, 2019 at 17:21 | comment | added | Mast | Won't the information be obsolete within a year? | |
| May 14, 2019 at 8:40 | comment | added | ashleedawg | @rahuldottech - Make it so. | |
| May 12, 2019 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/super_user/status/1127634732739645446 | ||
| May 11, 2019 at 16:34 | comment | added | undo | @Akeo I see, thanks for the info! | |
| May 10, 2019 at 21:57 | comment | added | Akeo | Yeah, older ISOs were not designed for removable, mostly (I believe) because at the time the only drives with a high enough write speed were fixed ones, and Microsoft didn't want people to install WTG on USB 2.0 drives, and then complain about how excruciatingly slow it was. Btw the method used by Rufus to create WTG drives is the one documented at docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/…. Now, there also are ways to get removable drives to work with older ISOs, but they are not endorsed by MS so we chose not to do that in Rufus... | |
| May 10, 2019 at 16:54 | history | edited | undo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 10, 2019 at 16:47 | comment | added | undo | @Akeo Hey! I didn't expect a response from you. I didn't realize this because I use LTSB ISOs that haven't been refreshed in a while. TIL, thanks! I love your tool and use it frequently. | |
| May 10, 2019 at 14:54 | comment | added | Akeo | "but it'll only create a WTG install if the USB drive shows up as fixed/non-removable." Rufus developer here. That is certainly not correct. The fixed/non-removable issue was a Microsoft limitation that used to exist with Windows 8 and very early Windows 10 ISOs, but that Microsoft removed with later versions. If you use a recent ISO of Windows 10, Rufus will happily create a Windows To Go drive, even on removable/non-fixed media. | |
| May 8, 2019 at 18:37 | comment | added | fixer1234 | Just a thought. WTG might be a narrow focus (doesn't make it bad, just a limited audience), but the broader issue of bootable Windows of any kind on a portable device (including installation media, like the linked question), could encompass WTG and serve a wider audience. Purpose-written canonical questions can be a lot of work, so the more use-cases it includes, the more useful it will be. If you identify in the question that it is intended as a canonical thread, people are far less likely to think that the question is too broad. But yeah, go for it, and you're a qualified person to write it. | |
| May 8, 2019 at 16:48 | answer | added | bertieb | timeline score: 15 | |
| May 8, 2019 at 16:26 | comment | added | bertieb | My suggestion from chat: just write the QA as a self-answer. If it generates discussion (too broad, primarily opinion-based, use a simple search etc) direct folks to this meta QA so they can weigh in | |
| May 8, 2019 at 16:25 | comment | added | bertieb | From related questions: Do we need a canonical question for creating bootable Windows 10 installation media? | |
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| May 8, 2019 at 15:44 | history | edited | Burgi |
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| May 8, 2019 at 13:50 | comment | added | DavidPostill Mod | I like the idea. | |
| May 8, 2019 at 13:37 | comment | added | Burgi | My point is that I haven't seen any questions about it in the new questions list. | |
| May 8, 2019 at 13:36 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | I suggested that rahul ask this - since this could potentially be a community FAQ. We're had a few similar posts in the past, say for installing windows sans DVD, so its certainly on topic, but whether we need canonical post is something I feel the community needs to decide | |
| May 8, 2019 at 13:32 | comment | added | undo | @Burgi As someone who creates WTG drives frequently, had such a post existed, it would have saved me a lot of time that I spent on experimentation with the aforementioned tools. I'd be happy to write the post myself and share what I learnt. | |
| May 8, 2019 at 13:29 | comment | added | Burgi | Does this come up enough to warrant the effort? | |
| May 8, 2019 at 13:24 | history | asked | undo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |